The president of the United State is an important person so the presidential election is treated as an important event, but is the president really elected by the people. Should the president be elected by popular vote only? If the people elect the president why shouldn't they tally-up the total votes of each candidate and whoever has the most votes is the president. But, that isn't the way things are done for example, this year presidential election the person who had the most popular votes didn't win the election. B

That could be to outgoing president and vice president final duty to choose the new president. Since they would know what it takes to fulfill the role as the United States president. They could watch all the presidential debates and see which candidate is best for the job. In some cases this would not be a good method for example in the past election the outgoing president was Bill Clinton and the vice president was Al Gore. The two top candidates in the past election was Al Gore and George Bush, which meet Clinton and Gore would have had to chose from Bush and Gore. Gore would have had an unfair advantage.

Methods the United States uses or can use to elect its president. The United States elects its presidents through the electoral college, where each state gets a certain amount of electoral votes from the amount of representatives and senators, which allows the presidential candidates to focus more on the states with more people. Popular vote could be the next method of electing the president, by taking all the votes and tallying the

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